Danielle Collins Nearly Moved to Tears as She Turns Grateful to American WTA Peers for Their Unending Support

American WTA star Danielle Collins’ struggle with endometriosis and rheumatoid arthritis made her take the retirement decision way back in January 2024 after her exit from the Australian Open. However, the overwhelming support this Miami Open 2024 winner received from “every American in the top 100″ is unfathomable. Without losing her motivation, she thanked the tennis fraternity for keeping the fire inside her burning.

After winning the Miami Open tournament, she dealt with the retirement-related questions gracefully and offered to show a much more humble and grounded side of her character. In a recent podcast by WTA Insider, she delved deeper into her life, her Miami Open victory, and her experience in professional tennis.

Danielle Collins is grateful to have such “close bonds with so many of these women on tour”

In this podcast, Collins spoke about how grateful she is to make friends in an individual sport like tennis and how these American colleagues helped her to be inspired about her goals – “Yeah, I think one of the things I am most proud of in my career in being in an individual sport is like the friendships that I have been able to develop, cause I know unfortunately it is not like that for everyone and I have created such close bonds with so many of these women on tour and like to come of the core and literally have every American in the top 100 reach out to me, sending me message, offer support, like really I have tears in my eyes.”

Danielle Collins expresses her gratitude to her colleagues with her statement. However, this is not the first time Collins has shown such a humble side of her personality. In fact, this American WTA star wishes to write about these friendships and support in her book someday.

Collins wishes to launch her book where she will be talking about her “most special” friendships in professional tennis life

In an interview with Prakash Amritraj on Tennis Channel, Collins brought back her gratitude to her colleagues and fans.  She thanked them for being worried about her and keeping faith in her performances. She also wished to document these in her book if she writes one in the future.

Collins said- “Friendships that I’ve gotten to make over the course of my career. I could tear up talking about, I mean, the players you, Steven like I yeah, that’s one of the most special things. And hopefully I’ll get to, you know talk about that in my book someday, right.” 

Danielle Collins’s revelation about her friendships in professional tennis showcased the positive and bright side of this sport. More than that, Collins’s fans were happy seeing the fraternity’s overwhelming support for this American WTA Pro.

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